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MEMBERS of the Bauchi State House of Assembly have passed a bill to repeal the State Public Property and Funds Recovery Tribunal Act of 2017 that was enacted to recover funds thought to have been misappropriated by previous governors.

NIGERIA'S Federal Executive Council (Fec) has approved a government decision to obtain a $1bn bank loan from China's Exim Bank to fund the Gurara II Hydropower project as part of ongoing plans to increase electric capacity in the country.

FORMER Super Eagles skipper Christian Chukwu will arrive in the UK tonight for medical treatment on his nagging prostate cancer ailment at the prestigious Saint Elizabeth and Saint John’s Hospital in London.

CONTROVERSIAL Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has kept up her ongoing media battle with her ex-husband Olakunle Oladunni by rubbishing his recent claims that he is a tireless machine in bed.

GOVERNOR Rochas Okorocha has filed a suit with the federal high court in Abuja seeking the protection of his fundamental rights saying that his political adversaries are denying him his certificate of return as the duly elected senator for Imo West Senatorial District.

By Ayo Akinfe 

(1) Come on now my people, if we do not accept our shortcomings, we are never going to overcome them. Our problems in Nigeria are multi-faceted but they can be narrowed down to three things - intellectual laziness, ostentation and short term greed. In 1922, Frederick Lugard spotted all this and summed us up perfectly in his book Dual Mandate 

FORMER vice president Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been advised by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal to file a formal request demanding that its chairman Justice Zainab Bulkachuwa resign her position because of fears over a conflict of loyalty.

POLICE have arraigned traditional priest Dada Oluwafemi before an Abuja high court on charges of a criminal breach of trust and cheating after he absconded upon receiving a sum of N635,000 ($1,750) from a client who paid him to offer special prayers.

SENATORS have threatened to shut down the operations of Nigerian betting chain Bet9ja over the company's repeated refusal to appear before the National Assembly to answer questions about the amount of tax it pays the government.

NIGERIA is facing the prospect of an international athletics ban over allegations that the  sports ministry misappropriated a sum of $135,000 accidentally paid to it by the International Amateur Athletics federation (IAAF).